1948–1989 Fifty-seven years without a bridgePäťdesiatsedem rokov bez mosta

In 1948 the town was renamed Štúrovo. The bridge stayed exactly where it had fallen — two stumps and a gap — and to reach Esztergom, half a kilometre away, you took a ferry or a very long detour; that lasted fifty-seven years. From the 1960s a pulp and paper mill went up on the edge of town and became its largest employer, and drilling in the 1970s struck warm water, which is where the Vadaš thermal baths came from.Roku 1948 mesto premenovali na Štúrovo. Most zostal presne tam, kam spadol — dva pahýle a diera — a do Ostrihomu vzdialeného pol kilometra sa chodilo kompou alebo veľkou obchádzkou; trvalo to päťdesiatsedem rokov. Od 60. rokov vyrástla na okraji mesta celulózka a papiereň, ktorá sa stala jeho najväčším zamestnávateľom, a vrty v 70. rokoch narazili na teplú vodu — tak vzniklo termálne kúpalisko Vadaš.